Hot in the kitchen

This was during my cookery lesson with Tabara on how to prepare a traditional Tchiebu Diem. She took me shopping in the markets and then I prepared the evening meal with her for the family. The kitchen is a small tin clad box in the corner of the compound, the inside of which is black with soot and filled with an array of huge bowls, a gas canister and three rocks for a wood fire. The light filters in through the hundreds of rusting holes and the sun heats the box to about 50 degrees.